Friday, December 07, 2012

Miscellaneous Whatever

The economy of the future, hell, of the present: Shit jobs paying shit wages and having to deal with the public all day. If you screw up, you get screwed:

Other than scribbling out applications for new jobs, fast food workers can’t do much about being fired, according to industry and labor experts. In the meantime, workers like Fisher remain part-time by definition, earn low wages, get no health benefits and can remain on call constantly to pick up last-minute shifts.

“They haven’t shown improvement over the last couple decades, they’ve gotten worse,” says John Borsos, a professor at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md., of fast food restaurants. “And they’ve become such a fundamental part of the economy.”